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CALLER: Well, supposedly if a crime… If the special counsel determines that a crime was committed, then Comey is a “whistleblower,” not a “leaker.”<\/p>\nRUSH: Debbie, Nashville. Great to have you with us on Open Line Friday. I appreciate your call.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Any time. You bet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was watching the news feed on the Washington Post and CNN, and they are gearing up their whistleblower lawyers claiming that Comey is a whistleblower and therefore not a leaker, and I was just wondering to get your take on that and what you thought, whether he —<\/p>\n
RUSH: What did he blow the whistle on? What did he blow the whistle on?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, supposedly if a crime… If the special counsel determines that a crime was committed, then Comey is a “whistleblower,” not a “leaker.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. But, again, what crime?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, they\u2019re saying… They\u2019re imagining or supposing that the special counsel will find a crime.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What crime?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I guess I suppose they\u2019re saying the crime of obstruction.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. ‘Cause there isn\u2019t a crime now.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do you know what they\u2019re…? Can I tell you? You know what they\u2019re going after? You know the name Michael Flynn, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. What do you think…? There\u2019s no wrong answer here. I just want to pick your brain here. After everything you\u2019ve heard and you think you know about Michael Flynn, what is it that he\u2019s done that they\u2019re gonna nab him for and punish him for?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Uhhh, I suppose possibly lying to the FBI, maybe. They think that he lied on one of his forms?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. All right. Hold it a minute now. You\u2019re right. They\u2019re going after Flynn on lying to investigators. But that\u2019s not what they\u2019ve said Flynn did. They\u2019ve said Flynn colluded with the Russians. They said Flynn talked to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions. They say Flynn committed treason. They say Flynn did… They got nothing on Flynn. He didn\u2019t do anything. Now they\u2019re trying to zero in on a process crime.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, everything Flynn did was within his bounds on the transition team to talk with the Russian ambassador.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t —<\/p>\n
RUSH: The point is everything that the American people have been told about what a reprobate this guy is? He hasn\u2019t done those things. He did —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He may have lied. He lied to the vice president. I don\u2019t know what specific process crime, but I know they\u2019re going after him for lying. So now you bring up they\u2019re trying to say that Comey was just a whistleblower; the special counsel is gonna go after Trump for obstruction. What would be the obstruction? Trump was never targeted. Trump was never being investigated. So how the heck can Trump be trying to shut down the investigation? I think Trump\u2019s like anybody else; he wants to know what the hell is the investigation is! We still don\u2019t know what the hell it is!<\/p>\n
CNN, they just had a graphic. You know, Trump\u2019s got a presser coming up with the grand pooh-bah of Romania, and CNN had five questions they hope the media asks, and one of the questions is “information on Russian interference.” Here again, folks, we have something that is being portrayed to you as it\u2019s never happened before. It only happened because of Trump, and it happened in collusion with Trump, even though now everybody knows that Trump was not being investigated for that, and there\u2019s supposedly some ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
Why do you think Loretta Lynch wanted Comey to call the Hillary investigation a “matter”? Because the word “investigation” is a loaded word. The word “investigation” implies detectives and crimes and gumshoes walking and running around town trying to find clues because it\u2019s obvious that a crime or two\u2019s been committed. So “the investigation” is made up of sleuths and private eyes going out there and trying to find criminals. That\u2019s not what this is. You know, trying to counter Russian interference is a daily operation of the CIA!<\/p>\n
This boggles my mind, that the Russians have this unique thing they do, trying to interfere with American elections? Folks, I have to tell you: I think career CIA people who may be nonpartisan, not attached, have to be laughing themselves silly at the way all of this has been positioned. The objective of the CIA is to stop and expose Russian spies every day on any number of things. But the way this has been portrayed is that we are helpless and harmed. “The Russians have invaded our elections.<\/p>\n
“The Russians have an ongoing operation to tamper with our precious elections, and we are powerless to stop it and we don\u2019t know how it happened (sniveling), and Trump might have made it happen, and, oh, my God, it\u2019s horrible!” As though the Russians every other day are minding their own business, not caring about interfering in our elections. Meaning, the idea that there\u2019s a special, isolated investigation into Russian interference is a laughable concept. It\u2019s a joke! The CIA, the DIA, the FBI — you pick it — the NSA every day is on the prowl looking for Russian interference or spying activity or what have you.<\/p>\n
For crying out loud, folks, the Russians have succeeded in infiltrating the American college campus. The Russians have succeeded — the Soviets, the communists have succeeded — in infiltrating American pop culture. They\u2019ve been doing it for decades! This is flat-out insulting here to think that this Russian election investigation is something unique and special that has a finite beginning and a finite end and that it\u2019s only something that\u2019s relative to Trump. All of this is just giant misdirection. It\u2019s just a giant lie.<\/p>\n